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Finn | They/them | 21+ | AO3: finemeal I write, I draw, and I'm obssessed with those fictional characters
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catmask

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top' is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top' is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back

additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you

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daftpatience

useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)

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SHORT STORY/ONE-SHOT/ONE CHAPTER/COMICS 101 CRASH COURSE RAPIDPUNCHES’ STYLE

I’m NOT an expert but I have some working experience I can share. You need experience to become great. Here is my set of instructions, tips, and notes towards making a 12-page comic.
My method is to work backwards. Personally I work “backwards” because the end is the only wholly necessary page or set of panels in the story. Everything in between is open to editing and hacking as the most important moments are emphasized and chosen.
I even plan/draw the end page first. The end is the last page a reader sees- so spend your freshest energies on making it as epic, memorable, poignant, and beautiful as #$%^&.
If you draw the pages from 1 to 12 sequentially you run the risk of fresh to burnt out- an uneven distribution of drawing skill. (treat the first page and the 2-page splash as you would the last).
Roughly… the steps to making your comic is
  1. WRITE
  2. PLAN THUMBNAILS
  3. DRAW
…BEGIN THE WRITING (DO NOT SKIP NO MATTER WHAT) like this, in this order:
  • How does it end?
  • Does the protag succeed or fail?
  • What is the turning point of their story?
  • What the protag do that led them there?
  • Where does it start?
  • Who is this protag?
EXAMPLE:
  • Guy gets mauled by a bear.
  • This is a fail on the guy’s half.
  • The bear must eat something or he’ll starve to death.
  • It’s the guy’s fault the bear can’t find other food. He caused the avalanche that buried all the cabins.
  • The guy is yodeling in an avalanche zone.
  • The guy is some guy.
CREATING “THE BEAT SHEET” Take the above stuff and reorder it to make sense.
  1. This guy yodels.
  2. Echoes roll.
  3. Snow slides down.
  4. Avalanche buries the mountain.
  5. Cabins are engulfed.
  6. This bear has no access to cabin food and garbage.
  7. Bear eats this guy.
Expand. Blow up important beats for emphasis. Keep less important beats brief.
  1. This guy is hiking in the snowy mountains.
  2. He comes across an avalanche warning sign.
  3. There is nobody around but him.
  4. A dumb expression forms over his face and he yodels.
  5. Echoes roll but nothing nearby is moved.
  6. At the top of the mountain the snow drifts twitch.
  7. Guy, satisfied, hikes away from there still yodeling.
  8. Frozen snow cracks.
  9. Snow puffs billow and great slabs of ice crash down the mountain side.
  10. Guy sees this and hightails it to safer ground.
  11. Animals, people, are all panicking and getting pushed over by the rushing snow.
  12. Cabins are destroyed.
  13. The guy takes cover by an outcropping of rocks, fastens himself securely to the rock face, and waits for the avalanche to die down.
  14. Avalanche dies down.
  15. A lone bear shambles over from the other side of the mountain.
  16. The bear goes to where a cabin used to be (only roof tiles are left). Bear sniffs a dish satellite.
  17. Bear forlornly eats a food wrapper.
  18. Bear tries to dig.
  19. Guy comes down from the rocks he as climbing and sees bear.
  20. Bear stops digging and sees him.
  21. Guy runs.
  22. Bear chases him down.
  23. Bear eats the guy.
BEAT SHEET COMPLETED!!!
  • After the beat sheet, write up all the sound effects and speech bubbles and conversation/dialogue you want to be in your comic.
  • Since comics are a visual medium, highest priority is given to the beats. If a story can’t be told with the art without the dialogue– you messed up and it’s time to rethink your life choices.
  • Try to keep all your text chunks as short as a tweet. Professionally you don’t want more than 25 words per speech bubble and no more than 250 words per page.
  • Next is translating the beats to pages…
STRUCTURE OVERVIEW:
[1] point of entry, in media res, hero intro
[2][3] conflict. establish conflict, setting, and mood by the third page. [4][5] rising action/false resolution to conflict/investigation
[6][7] turning point/plot twist/epiphany (this one epic image, to page spread is pivotal, spend a lot of effort into creating this)
[8][9] aftermath/“darkness before dawn”/struggle [10][11] recovery/“rise and conquer”/“fall”
[12] resolution/final end/cliffhanger
[front cover][interior] [interior][back cover]
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My maximum per page is nine panels but I’ve seen pages that have way more. I like to have about 3 to 4 panels per row or less but I’ve seen the “rules” broken before. Advanced comic book artists manipulate time with the number of panels and the size of each panel.
remember, DIAGONALS!!! open up an issue of batman, superman, spider man, deadpool or whatever youre reading theyre everywhere.
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…DRAW IN THIS ORDER:
  • Page 12,
  • Page 6 and 7 (this is typically one large image that takes up the space of two pages),
  • Page 1,
  • and then the rest.
ONLY “DEVIATION” ALLOWED:
  • Page 12 and 1*
  • Page 6 and 7,
  • and then the rest.
*Draw the first and last page as a spread in situations where the beginning of the story mirrors the end of the story.
Cover is dead last.
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(If at the very end you find out you need more pages and it’s absolutely unavoidable and totally necessary you have to add them in fours. Try to stick to 12 pages for this crash course.)
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FURTHER NOTES:
  • Plan and draw the pages in spreads (the twos) since this is how it will appear in print and when you submit them to an editor for review guess what, the pages with an exception to the first and last will be reviewed as spreads.
  • You at most only need one establishing panel of the setting and environment (scene) per page.
  • Forget “true to life” perspective outside of the establishing panel). Practice diagonal composition of objects and subjects within panels. For dynamism.
  • You don’t have to present the text all in one go (one paragraph or bubble). You can and should break up paragraphs, sentences, and if you need to single out words– to make smaller, more easily managed bubbles to scatter through the panel.
  • Less important moments have smaller panels and or lesser detail. More details (or more word bubbles) slow down time. More drawn detail also creates a concentration of values (it’s darker and sometimes combines together as one shape or mass)
  • Know your light sources. Control the blacks. Control the values.
TIPS | COFFEE? :3 | dA | IG |  
(more coming soon 11/22/2016)

There is a comment later from the original poster linking to a PDF

At the time of this reblog, it can be purchased for $0 with a fair price request of $3.

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Workout For Daily Life

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chitarra10

Reblogging for the neck pain ones… whoa Nelly, do I ever get the most killer neck pains.

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brighid45

When I was in rehab for a broken hip, my physiotherapist taught me to do the hand/wrist, feet and neck exercises as well as leg extensions etc.

‘It’s all connected,’ he’d say. And he’s right :) I still do those exercises regularly and they help. They help a lot.

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wearemage

THIS will be sooo good for my soundboard. Those online sessions are about to become even better :D

First music, then voice modifiers… Now this. Perfect.

Also, I’m pretty sure it can be used for a lot of other activities.

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musicalhell

Yay, no more Soundbible!

For any content creators who’d like it!

[Image one: closeup on someone’s hand opening a can of Coca-Cola. Image two: Landscape photo of Yellowstone National Park, two mountains in the background and a buffalo in the lower right hand corner.]

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ursineknight

Another resource I’ve been using for years: mynoise.net!

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marat

i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

Drawing challenge: draw your favorite male characters like this

this is exactly why i’m a huge fan of posemaniacs!

you get 3d model pose references with the option of having a male or female anatomy for each pose

they have a WIDE VARIETY of poses that you can search for using a TAG SYSTEM

(as you can see by the scroll bar in the second image there is Even More Tags)

you can select a pose you like for larger viewing and the convenience doesn’t stop!!!

you have full 360 viewing range of the pose plus zooming in and out

and what’s that? a TOOLBAR?? MENU?? THING??

Correct!

the eye button hold a very fun menu

negative space blacks out the background and fills the pose with a solid white silhouette

the “texture” refers to the skin situation of the model with the “color” and “grey” shown below

(i usually use color personally)

then there’s the option of different sized drawing grids(4 and 16 below)

idk wtf bounding box is about but it looks like this if it matters to you

“floor” toggles all shadows on the floor, “floor grid” you guessed it puts a like perspective guide grid on the floor that goes to forever, and “shadow” toggles ALL shading. there is NO lighting happening if you turn that off. NONE.

NEXT ITEM! that box thing with the line through it? flips the pose horizontally.

the little person symbol? lets you switch anatomies

camera icon? you can choose from a selection of preset camera angles PLUS an option for … idk what to call it but you can do this!

less flat right!! i’m sure there’s a word i just don’t know but this is maximum *that* so there is less *that* if you want it

the lightbulb gives you a menu like the camera one but it offers a selection of lighting styles with variable intensity

CHARMING!

and that’s not even everything this site provides!!!!!!! they have tutorials, instructional videos, lessons, all sorts of shit!!! (although they are vast majority if not all in japanese just a heads up)

AND ITS ALL FREE

DONT EVEN NEED TO SET UP AN ACCOUNT OR APPROVE OF COOKIES JUST GET IN DO YOUR THING GET OUT NO STRINGS ATTACHED

and if you don’t have ad blocker or are on mobile(like me) NOT TO WORRY

the ads are few and far between! ZERO video ads, NONE take over your screen or glitch you at all, they are of no concern i forget they’re there!

(this is not at all sponsored btw i’m just a genuine fan of this site and i’m happy to spread the good word unprompted)

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wearemage

THIS will be sooo good for my soundboard. Those online sessions are about to become even better :D

First music, then voice modifiers… Now this. Perfect.

Also, I’m pretty sure it can be used for a lot of other activities.

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musicalhell

Yay, no more Soundbible!

For any content creators who’d like it!

[Image one: closeup on someone’s hand opening a can of Coca-Cola. Image two: Landscape photo of Yellowstone National Park, two mountains in the background and a buffalo in the lower right hand corner.]

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closet-keys

them: you don’t watch game of thrones?? really? how come?

me: 

Oh my god, this is going on my list along with doesthedogdie.com

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tzikeh

Holy shit that’s useful

I probably won’t find myself using this but for my followers: if you can’t handle this shit, USE THIS. If you think a movie or tv show may be hard to watch, do your homework.

1 - the very reason why I don’t watch GoT

2 - This and rotten apples are some of the best sites ever

3 - Does the dog die have a TON of subcategories, such as jumpscares, strobe effects, does a kid die, does an LGBT person dies and many, many others (they actually link to unconsenting media under “someone is sexually assaulted”). Please save it to tour favorites is really freaking usefull

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whimsisadie

Useful info. But… (and I sort of doubt it) is there a database like this for car and/or motorcycle accidents? I end up having to give up on lots of movies and shows because there’s often too much for me to handle still. Don’t really like playing the guessing game of “how traumatized is this gonna make me”

Does the Dog Die has car crashes, and if someone gets hit by a car

Seriously, they have a ton of things, and if they don’t, you can reach out to them and they’ll add a category

Hey y’all I know I haven’t posted in literal ages but here’s a bunch of sites who do this way better than I do!

I have epilepsy (among other things) and use these sites. When friends haven’t seen a show/movie and can’t inform me if it’s safe, I browse these sites. Saved me from having seizures.

as someone who never even realized there were websites with trigger warnings, this is absolutely incredible information

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Give credit to the 30-year-old who worked on this for free and offers this service for free!

WHAT?!

I study graphic design and my tutor recommended and used this in his classes at art college last year, it’s so good it has SO many features for free, I really recommend it, even if you’re just trying to learn the basics of PS, such a wonderful thing <3

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a list of 100+ buildings to put in your fantasy town

  • academy
  • adventurer's guild
  • alchemist
  • apiary
  • apothecary
  • aquarium
  • armory
  • art gallery
  • bakery
  • bank
  • barber
  • barracks
  • bathhouse
  • blacksmith
  • boathouse
  • book store
  • bookbinder
  • botanical garden
  • brothel
  • butcher
  • carpenter
  • cartographer
  • casino
  • castle
  • cobbler
  • coffee shop
  • council chamber
  • court house
  • crypt for the noble family
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no one coulda reblogged this a month ago when i spent 500

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trappunzelll

Look at KB coming through

Every time you see this, reblog it. There is always someone in college that will see this.

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This guy knows what he’s talking about. He’s one of the lead writers for Leverage and if you ever watch the series on DVD, do yourself a favor and listen to him talk about how the scripts got written. Some of the advice he has is stuff I use all the time: 1. Don’t introduce an important plot person or thing after the first half of the story. 2. Always tie up loose ends. 3. Introduce important things in the middle of unimportant things. 4. If you have to infodump, find an emotion to tie it to and it will seem less like infodump and more like a motive rant. Seriously this guy knows how to write.

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s-n-arly

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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adorkastock

The wait is over - the Digitigrade/Unguligrade Leg pack is here! 🥳 Patrons at all levels got a special 20 image peek and the full 163 image Premium Pack is on Ko-fi for $15+ (Patrons get 20% off premium packs so be sure to message me there or check the preview post for the code if you need it!) Modeling and photography on this pack is done by Thire and Faol; the legs are from Digilegs. Happy drawing!! ♥

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